What is Budgeting Your Life?
Most people associate money with a budget, and while that’s true, the concept of budgeting applies to every aspect of your life:
- Sleep/waking periods
- Personal hygiene habits and clothing choices
- What, when and how much you eat
- Healthcare Expense vs. Need
- Where you reside and how you ride
- Career/education goals and how, when, and where you achieve them
- What you do in your free time and how much time you consider “free”
- How and how much you spend on your big celebrations
- Age and identity as a person
- Faith or lack of same
- Various relationships (work, friends, strangers, family, God, attractions, commitments, etc.)
- Understanding what love is … and isn’t
- Values vs. your desires
- And finally, what you earn vs. what your choices actually cost
Each of these life budgeting aspects will be addressed in a separate post. Yes, even blog posts need to adhere to the concept of budgeting!
Ideally we learn how to budget our lives from our parents. But that doesn’t always happen. People don’t always know things when they need to know them and pass them on. So we learn from trial and error. My own life consisted of a combination of parental training and rebellious trial and error. I don’t recommend the rebellious path; it’s rough. Reading the Budgeting Your Life blog series can help those of you who choose not to live rough. I won’t judge. I’ll just share how life really works and what our choices really are. OK? OK. Good.
